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Show THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1974 THE CITIZEN 9 Represented At Bear River Development Meet Thirty-fwoAgenci- es Thirty-tw- o agencies were the project. Some of these represented at Logan in an are. Rice and Jim Canyon RC&D meeting April 4. They pipeline in Box Elder, Third were hosted by the Bear Creek Diversion and Siphon River Resource Conservation and Development Project Executive Board under the leadership of Marion Olsen, board president. These representatives came from local, state, and federal Idaho. report and an agencies in Utah and They were given a on RC&D activities updated copy of the RC&D Program of Action." After hearing the reports, a representative from each of the agencies pledged continued support to the project. In a slide presentation, in of tons A dirt HEAVY WORK bulldozer being hired at $20 an hour, slowly pushes away Kenneth Cardon, executive board member from Cache, attempts to reach the West Cache canal channel blocked by a slide in Riverdale. Citizen Photo brought the group up to date on RC&D accomplishments 'since its beginning in 1966. he explained that RC&D started as a one county project in Box Elder County. In 1969, it was expanded to include Cache and Oneida. Rich County and Franklin County were brought in during 1972 to form the Bear River RC&D Project. According to Cardon, the project is sponsored by 27 organizations. These consist of five county commissions, eight soil conservation districts, seven major cities and seven special groups. He said that these sponsors appoint 15 men who make up the executive board. The board elects a president, four vice presidents and a secretary annually. Resource development comes through project measures sponsored by local groups within the project area according to Cardon. five-coun- ty He reported that 62 project measures have been comHEFTY SLIDE This is the hillside that came cascading down in Riverdale recently since the starting of pleted Citizen Photo burying West Cache canal and blocking Bear River. in Oneida, and Porcupine Highline Canal lining in Cache. The development of RC&D project measures has improved the environment and had a definite impact on the economics of the project area, he said. He said that completed project measures cost over $5,000,000. More than $500,000 has been given to the measure sponsors in RC&D cost-sharin- grants. g Well over $600,000 has come in other grants. Cardon estimated that project measures now completed have an impact of about $600,000 per year on the economy of the area. Stephen Hinckley, an executive board member from Franklin County, presented each agency with a copy of the new Bear River Resource Conservation and De- velopment Project Pro- gram of Action. He explained that the book contains the objectives of the RC&D Project and detailed information on the physical and human aspects of each of the project counties. It also contains, he said, a list of approved project measures that are being considered by local sponsors for development. Nesting Cover Important For Birds Pheasants and pther upland game birds can take care of themselves if the habitat is suitable. At this time of year this means nesting cover, which is at a s premium in Idaho. or more of the birds available next fall will be from this year's production. This was the reaction to- Two-third- Worlcer Treated Terry Draper, 23, River- ton, Utah, was treated and released at Franklin County Memorial Hospital Saturday after suffering a fall. Draper was working in the Linrose area of West Side on a home under construction. The home belongs to Eugene Jones. Ambulance crewman. Dr. Larry Stokes, said Draper apparently slipped and fell from the foundation to the concrete basement floor. pre-fabricat- ed day of Dick Norell, state game bird supervisor, when advised by a Wilder farmer that person or persons unknown" had touched a match to a waster and pond area on his property, destroying considerable nesting habitat for pheasants and quail. Because irrigation ditches and fencerows are being cleaned, there is precious little cover left, Norell 25-ac- re stressed. Is there anything we can Norell questioned. "We have to fight every year to keep people from starting fires and burning out the annual wildlife do about this? crop." Adding that birds must select alternate nesting sites when burned out. Norell declared that if the state is to have birds, landholders must leave enough space for them. This is a statewide Gilbert's Auto Outlaw Champ The tourney was by the Eighth and!! Ninth Quorum of Elders of champion of an eight-teabasketball tour- the Preston Idaho North outlaw nament held in the Preston Stake. Championship game box High School gymnasium last score: week. team KELLY'S AMERICAN Led by for- (47) Waddell 0 5 4; Hew-ar- d Dave Nielsen, members, Gilberts Auto Repair ot Fairview emerged the m 1 all-tourn- ey 4-- mer Sky View High School 0 0 0; Woods 0 0; Giand Jan Hall, standout, Jensen 0 3; Christensen lberts defeated Kellys 1 6 7; Weeks 0 0 0; RobAmerican of Lewiston, ertson 4 3 10; Griffin 0-- 0 0-- 3-- 6 0-- 5-- 68-4- 7, 2-- in the title game. 5 2 11; Cornish 5 0 10; Fairview of totals 16 Inglet Dairy took third place with a 7 GILBERTS AUTO (68) win over Bosen Distributing Nielsen 9 0 18; Brown of Preston. 3 4 8; A. Hall 4 2 10; J. valuable most Hall 6 4 15; Hyde 1 4 5; Tourney Idaho of Clark Monte player Bodily 3 0 6: Larsen in 32 Falls collected 2 0 4; B. Rawlings 10-- 0 2; points the third place game for totals 29 7 Inglets. A player disqualifiKellys 10 9 11 8 12 20 13 cation made Inglets ineliGilberts TOTAL FOULS Kellys gible for the championship 0-- 1-- 15-2- 2. 63-4- 0-- 2-- 2-- 3-- 3-- 0-- 0-- 10-1- 7. 17-4- 23-6- battle. Others named to the 20, all- tourney squad included Steve Porter of Terrys Electric, and Paul Jeppesen of the West Side Seniors. Gilberts 20. FOULED OUT Christen sen, Robertson; Nielsen, Brown. TECHNICALS Kellvs Bench. kASTER hkautIES Holly and Kimberlee Edwards, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Edwards, get in the swing J. Hall, 0f Easter by surrounding themselves with Easter lilies a sure sign of the Christian holiday to be commemorated Sunday throughout the world. They are decked out in their Easter finery awaiting Sunday church services. Citizen Photo |